Oliver Stone has never made historically accurate movies. If he wanted to make a documentary he'd make one. But he was an artist and wanted to make something he thought was great and he did.
good to listen to this interview after watching the movie. Makes you realize what big change was made on the book and the outcome sucks. Is it that difficult to have the language checked at least after the movie was shot? I'm a native Turk and I had hard time understanding the judge, prosecuter, most of the prisoners... However, the "greek" accent didn't escape my notice and it made total sense when i read how Hayes was interrogated by greeks to collect intelligence concerning Turkish system ;)
(((_{-_-}_))) maybe this movie is ready to be remade, i just bought this 20th anniversary edition dvd, for 2bucks, i watched it when it first came out and just now, i'm so glad i'm straight, lol,
Fair enough, lets not blame the people in turkey, BUT yeah as he said in part 1- this doesnt justify the turkish prisons beause the system sucks BIG TIME and i still hate it and always will until they change it.
Also the guy that were interviewing Hayes; Not being bad or anything but you really need to improve your english language, sorry just had to mention it.
Did you hear what he said?That if he had really killed a person as in a guard while escaping that he wouldn't have been free anywhere even in the U.S., just suppose he had killed a guard,then made his way to Greece then Greece sent him to the U.S.,what then in 1975 ?Would the U.S. really have sent him back to Turkey to face an almost certain tortuous death? Back in 1975 I doubt the U.S. would've sent him back, today in 2011 I believe the U.S most certainly would send him.
@undergroundbasement "certain turturous death?" That sounds like USA to me not Turkey. As of 2004 Turkey does not have any capital punishment. And since Oct 1984, no prisoner was executed in Turkey. Before that there were executions but they were really rare and most of them happened because of military interventions. Otherwise I doubt he would be executed if he killed a guard. It is more certain to be happened in USA. Don't you think?
@kahraman You a right, the U.S. TODAY , does believe in torture, therefore I do believe they would send him back today if his escape happened today. The Justice Dept intended on sending Dog The Bounty Hunter to Mexico for his "attempted" capture of American Andrew Luster who fled there, charging him with kidnapping.Mexico wanted Dog to stand trial for kidnapping, and only the intervention of a few U.S. senators and media attention prevented it.U.S. is worse today than 30 yrs ago
Nah I was replying to some idiots comment and hs know-it-all. The movie was pretty fucked up. I personally felt offended, but this guy is a nice guy. It's a shame he never had a say in the making of it.
alinur beyinsel ozurlumusun adamin dedigini anlamiosan turkceyi ingilizceye ceviren biriyle konus.. o kadar sacma konusuosnki adamla utandim ya adam satranc diyo sen tavla diyosun adam yunan border dio sen canakkale diosn adam obur adam serbest kalmis dio sen cezaevnin icindemi vurdu die soruosn yuh ya
Qeki son kez söylüyorum hodrimeydan aq evladı. o kadar delikanlıysan hadi çık dağa . yemez. o büzük yemez. olacak adam da göt o zaman konuşacak. ancak girersin buraya gerçek adını saklayacaksın ibnelik yapacaksın. yiyomu dübürün silahlı mücadeleye aq ermeni dölü. sen bi kere adam değilsin, müslüman değilsin, erkek hiç değilsin. bak sana diyorum bu dünyanın bir de öteki tarafı var, oraya göçünce görürüm ben sizi. Allah'a (c.c.) da anlatırsın ermeni soykırımı kürt soykırımı diye.
1. Dünya savaşında Avrupa ülkeleri ve Rusyanın vaatlerine kanarak Osmanlıyı arkasından vuran bazı ermeni teröristler ve şimdiki pkk ikiside aynı hep Türkleri arkasından vuran senin gibi şerefsizleri yok etmek boynumuzun borcu şimdi ben sana sorarım TÜRK' E KEFEN BİÇMEK KİMİN HADDİNE
o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun
Esrar ve uyuşturucu kullanan insanların yazdığı ve oynadığı bir film hakkında bence hiç konuşmaya bile değmez. Olayın gerçek kahramanı bu kişi zamanında uyuşturucu kullanan ve satan bir şahıs. Filmin senaristi olan Oliver Stone uyuşturucu bağımlısı. Filmin başrol oyuncusu olan Brad Devis ise aşırı dozda uyuşturucu alması nedeniyle ölmüştür
@Fsmturks ne kadar uyusturucu alsa da senden cok daha namuslu ve sereflidir. sen iskenceyi savunuyor ama diger taraftan gizliyorsun. .tipki 2 yuzlu muslumanlar gibi her turlu yalan soyle ,hirsizlik yap ,iftira ,at ama camiye gidip namaz kil ..durust ve iyi bir insan mi oldun simdi?
@QEKI12 kimin namuslu ve şerefli olduğuna senmi karar vereceksin ben işkenceyi savunmuyorum yalana gelince bu filmde zaten bolca yalan iftira ve hakaret var türkçe bildiğine göre sana Türk demiyorum ama sanırım Türkiyede yaşıyorsun domuz ve piç olmayı sen kabul edebilirsin ama ben bir Türk vatandaşı olarak asla kabul edemem namaza gelince namaz kılmam ama iyi ve dürüst bir kişi olduğuma inanıyorum en azından senden çok daha fazla
@Fsmturks domuz ve pic olmayi kabul edebilirim ama turk olmayi asla!!!domuzlar iskence yapmaz.ulan lauk uyusturucu kullanan herkes senin gibi namusuz ve serefsiz mi?
@QEKI12 o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun
@QEKI12 o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun
@QEKI12 o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun?
@Fsmturks zaten siz barbarladan kacip senin "gavur" dedigin insanlara sigindim baktim ki bu "gavurlar" siz turklerden(domuz lardan) cok daha namuslu ve serefli insalarmis.senin boklu tc ¬nden baska ulke mi yok!Ama daha sizinle bitmemis bir hesabimiz.Katlettiginiz 100 binlerce savunmasiz Kurdun ,1.5 milyon Ermeninin hesabini verecek bu ayip ile omur boyu yasayacaksiniz
@QEKI12 biz barbar değiliz barbar olan sizlersiniz siz ermeni kırması olanlar fikir değil kinle yoğrulmuş intikam duygusu üretirsiniz.Müslümanım diye geçinip gavurların memleketini memleket sayıp bir tek tc dediğin yalnız ve güzel ülkem TÜRKİYEMİ memleket bellemezsiniz ama daha dur ne hocalı yı unuttuk ne de 1910'da ermenilerin bizlere yaptıklarını ne de pkk(terör örgütü)nın bizlere yaptıklarını gün gelecek devran dönecek elbet bir gün hak yerini bulacak TÜRKLER Yine CİHAN Hakimiyeti kuracak...
@gercekayvaz siktir lan irkci fasist kopek.soykirimci ,katliamci ulkeni bana ovme .iskencesiyle, teroruyle,acligi ve yoksulluguyla her gun 20 milyon Kurd ,turk pencesi altinda inim inim inliyor.
@QEKI12 ben ırkçı faşistsem eğer sen benden daha fazla ırkçı ve faşitsin bilmem farkında mısın?Türk milleti dünyada en çok soykırıma uğrayan millettir bunun nedeni ise şöyle izah edilebilir alemin derdi biz olmuşuz demek ki zamanında çok koymuşuz.Türkiye'de doğu bölgeleri haricinde elektirik ve su parası ödemeyen yer yok en çok yeşil kart doğu bölgelerinde ayrıca Türkiye'de 20 milyon kürt yok 11-15 milon arası kürt var(zazalar dahil) inanmazsan viki ye bak...
@QEKI12 olm sen bi kere kürt bile değilsin senin ne olduğun belli değil, . daha 1 hafta önceye kadar benimle başka video da ermeni olarak konuşmuyormuydun? senin içine o kadar işlemişki hayvanlık ancak karşındakini suçlarsın piç. ermeniler doğuda katliam yaptı sürüldüler iyi de oldu keşke yolda hepsi ölseydi. ermeni kürtler pkk yı kurdu onlara da iyi oldu ölenleri, rumlar zamanında yaptı onlara da koyduk delikanlı olsaydınız ermeni-rum olarak da yenseydiniz normal yollardan
@QEKI12 domuz ve piçsin o zaman deden de öyleydi demek ki sizde genetik haline gelmiş bu hadise ama şunu unutma namus ve şeref den bahsetmişsin sen onlar ne demek haberin var mı?bir piç olarak bu konuda ne hissediyosun?şerefin var mı?ya da bir domuz olarak namustan bahsedebiliyormusun?Şunu bil bir TÜRK'ün fikri neyse zikri de o dur.Sizin gibi kendine hayrı dokunmayan ha bir de kalkıp birilerine koltuk çıkim onlar da beni destekler diye konuşmaz bir TÜRK fikri ne ise zikri de o dur sen anlamazsın
@gercekayvaz domuzlar siz turkler gibi soykirim yapmaz, iskence sucu islemez,koy yakmaz sizil savunmasiz bebekleri kursuna dizmez.iste bu yuzden turk olmak yerine domuz olmayi tercih ediyorum.son 20 yilda 50 bin Kurdu katlettiniz ,4 bin kurd koyunu yaktiniz 5 milyon kurdu kurdistandan surdunuz. bunu ancak senin gibi namusuz ve serefsiz canlilar yapabilir
@QEKI12 ben müslümanım ne domuz olurum ne domuz yerim sen eğer müslümansan domuza benzetmenin bir müslümanı ne kadar günah olduğunu bilmelisin ama sen günahtan ne anlarsın vatana millete ihanet eden adamdan günahı anlamasını bekleyebilir misin?HAYIR...Son 30 yılda neler oldu sana söyleyim mi?Uygur Türkleri katledildi.Rusya etnik temizlik yaptı.ermeniler Hocalı katliamını yaptı pkk lılar ise defalarca yenildi ve Türk milleti ile uğraşmayı bırakın aksi halde Türk'e kefen biçenin ölümü korkunç olur
@QEKI12 senin ben ananı sikim orospunun evladı bütün videolarda bişeyler kanıtlamaya çalışıyosun. amına kodumun bölücüsü ermeni olduğundan yapıyosun senin ne olduğun belli değil piç. siktir git artık. aq evladı internette delikanlılığı yapıyosun ama ne güzel de Türkçe konuşuyosun senin anneni sikeyim diyorum başka da bişey demiyorum. Türk :Kürt ayrımını ancak senin gibi ermeni köpekler yapar başkası da yapmaz pkk denilen sikik grup da ermeni işi, bebekleri öldüren sizsiniz iyi bilirsiniz o işi
turks gave money to this gay to speak like that..u fucking amerocan supported turkis barbarism againts armenian genoside ,kurdish massagres.turkish polise get traned by cia, nato ,pentegon...
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This faggot, would have burridos shoved up his ass on a daily basis, if he were jailed in mexico, fuck em, he is not innocent. This idiot taped 2 ks of hash to his body and tried to smuggle it to the US ...he was a moron
When Oliver Stone made this film, due to Cold War which afforded some democracy at home may have made Turkey seem harsh, but today exactly the opposite is true. Watch gang stalking, gang stalking TV, gang stalking survivor, cell phone stalking, Monarch II (pt twelve), freedom's bloody corpse, back scatter x-ray vans videos on YouTube to see what I mean. U.S. has 5% of the world's population but holds 25% of the world's prisoners.
@Cinlouxx No,he has been back to Turkey. But I'm sure the turkish government paid him a nice sum to come and say nice things about Turkey. And let's not forget he made a fair amount of money from the book as well. Fact is Turkey has plenty of political violence and imprisons many journalists.
@Cinlouxx For tourists visiting Istanbul and the beach resorts in the western part of the country it's ok. The eastern part of the country is a very different story. Having said that there have been a few bombings in Istanbul in the last few years. And you must take into account people are very nationalistic,so be careful of criticising Turkey inside Turkey.
@mooneepondskid sadece Türkiye'de değil nerede olursan ol Türkiyemi eleştirirken dikkatli ol çünkü:kimse bizimle yaşamadan bizi eleştiremez NOT TURKEY YES TÜRKİYE
@mooneepondskid Ok thank you!. I'm guessing women have to wear those hijab's right?..I think I heard they don't have to, but still have to cover up or something.
He mentioned he would be afraid to go back to Turkey.Well if I spent five years in their prison.I wouldn`t be worried about it because I would never go back there.He wouldn`t hate the Turks just by the way he talked but he wakes up with that everyday.
@SuperMrCRAZYMAN of course, but there is some truth to it as well. The guy did have to escape, if it was not for him escaping, he would of never got out.
Tarik Akan (turkish actor) and Yilmaz Guney (turkish actor, filmaker) were also tortured during imprisonment. They were imprisoned for political reasons.
@kkkkrackers: The US isn't at war with Iraq, we're at war with Al-Queda. The Iraqi Army isn't fighting against the US, they're our allies. Get your shit straight
@mikeymike677 - wuuut ???? you should get YOUR shit strait, you attacked Iraq, and Iraqi army was defending their country, but they lost, you have occupied Iraq and created puppet government, than created a NEW Iraqi army, which of course isn't fighting with US, so lets stick to the facts here, and not propaganda.
So although I had a marvelous 17 days in turkey and the people were extemely nice I see the Irony. The government is possibley still a little bit barbaric. How can they ban Utube. How can a society not have freedom of speech. You can be on vacation in the sun with smiling turkish people and then find yourself in prison tied up by your feet. Always be careful in any foreign country. You dont have the civil rights that you have in USA. My impression of turkey is yes MIdnight express can hapen
@MrJim12341121 Billy Hayes story has happened in 1970s and he says most of the guards were really nice people. Turkey has improved a lot since then. We have a lot more university graduates who creates a better system. Although, we still have a way to go. On the other hand, if I got banged up in USA I believe Midnight express can happen there. Have you watch "The road to Guantanamo". It is a story of innocent people who were detained in Guantanamo by USA. It is a barbaric side of USA government.
I was in turkey 8 years ago for 17 days. He did not deserve the harsh punishment for smuggling but for being stupid. It is deceiving when you are in turkey because the people are nice but the government and military are fucked up. They indeed seem to be very strict and paranoid even to this day. If I called the founding father of modern turkey Ataturk a mother fucker asshole cocksucking piece of shit in turkey I can go to jail for that. Thats Barbaric. NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH. They bann utube
Pot is still technically illegal in the Netherlands. Law enforcement just ignores it: they will have a problem with someone smoking it out in public (ie: smoke it only inside a coffee shop/bar) I have been to Amsterdam many times and never had a problem. I also have walked at night in the city and never had a problem--Try to do that in most large cities esp USA and you will probably get mugged.
This guy does not want to hurt Turkish feelings and it is OK. But the truth is Turkey does have appalling Human Rights situation and even there are good people over there Ataturk system maintains them as sadistic, violent and christian hatred mobs.
I just was careful not to have the border guards see the nyquil bottle and wonder if there might be something more in it. I'm not worried about traveling abroad and have done so without incident. My point is that if you're gonna fool around with narcotics (including hash) in foreign countries, don't be shocked when you get to jail & you don't get your one phone call, you aren't allowed to release on bail, your lawyer (if you get one) doesn't speak english, you're not presumed innocent, etc.
I watched Midnight Express 30 years ago. I watched others like it (Return to Paradise, Brokedown Palace). If anything, it taught me to be careful when traveling to foreign nations. Call me paranoid but when I got a cold in London, I made a point of throwing away the over the counter Vick's Nyquil stuff before I left England. It sounds silly but I don't press my luck on being arrested for trumped up drug charges in a foreign country. Your US Constitutional rights don't extend overseas.
@WilliamRowlett what exactly are us constituional rights anyway, i get the feeling you are as xenophobic as you are ignorant of other countries. i can't think of a single thing - besides owning a gun - that you can do in america that you can't do in almost any western country. im fairly sure that in no state in America can you actually sit in a coffee shop and smoke cannabis the way you can here
Janine, there's nothing wrong with being able to own a firearm. I'm not ashamed that I own several. I'm not xenophobic, either. I'm just very careful not to put myself in a position to be arrested for the slightest reason of having illegal narcotics in a foreign country. A dose of prevention worth the pound of cure. As for being able to openly smoke pot at a sidewalk cafe in Amsterdam or shoot heroin in a public park, that's not something I do anyway. Keep your pot, I'll keep my guns.
USA is the ONLY western counrty where you can buy a gun without any permission, or psyhological tests etc. thus 90% of people died from shooting in all western countrys are in the USA... here in Poland allmost nobody have a gun, and we have about hundred killed from shooting YEARLY - Poland is 40 million population - and in US ? more than 30 thousend killed from gun yearly (!!!)
@Uuuuurk - EU is not a country, in some EU countrys you probably can get a gun eassily, but I talking about Poland, and here to get a gun you have to pass tests carried by the police, have zero criminal record, and aso have to have a reason - i.e. you have a business and often carry lots of casch, or something like this - and still that does not give 100% chance od getting a gun, as I said in Poland allmost nobody have a gun, and I like it that way
@Uuuuurk - And my source is: tiny(dot)pl/hg99r but you can find it in many more current sources, it's exacly: 28,663, and in Poland we have more or less 50 gun related deaths yearly (i've just checked in polish police statistics) so in USA - 300 mil. citizens, 30000 gun deaths, in Poland 40 mil. citizens - 50 gun deaths ! It's like 800 000:1 in Poland, and 10 000:1 in USA, shocking huh ? And another egzample - Germany - 300 gun deats yearly, with 80 mil. citizens
It all comes down to the fact that I would prefer to hold on to my right to bear arms even if that means having to worry about some psycho shooting me up on my way to pick up my kid from school. I would rather depend on myself than on my government to defend me. I would rather depend on myself to defend my own life and property and to have that freedom than to surrender it to any government authority. All statistics, therefore, become mute.
@Apollo5600 - hey man, I respect your opinion, I understand it, but... I don't agree with it, well, maybe if I would live in USA, and have to deal with high crime rate, than I would want a gun for my self, but in Poland I just don't have reasons... as I said, we have less murders in a year in whole country, than you have in NY i a month... of course if I would have a gun, I would feel a little bit safer, but - the cost of possibility to have a gun for almost everyone is to high for a society
@Apollo5600 - so... your right that statistics doesn't matter if you just want to feel safe, and have a gun to defend your family, but I gave those statistics data, to illustrate how different is the situation in Poland, than in the USA... so I generally think that I wouldn't feel safer in Poland if everybody could have a gun, cause now - almost nobody have it, in USA on the other hand, where almost everybody have a gun now, I would rather to have one also... again - sorry for my bad english ;]
And when Russia invades your sorry gun-free asses, you'll wish you had our Second Amendment. That said, I'm a good supporter of Poland and love your people.
the Polish military is to protect us, and NATO - which I hope THIS TIME will not f*ck us like in 1945, when the west sold Poland to soviet murderers ! And beliwe me, you a a citizen can't protect your country with a gun, i.e. EVERY citizen of Iraq had a gun - did it protect them from powerfull US army ? Of course not, but when everybody have a gun, you have situations like frustrated/crazy studend shooting to other students, and teachers, or driver shooting to policeman
so I hardly see any up's in having free acces to guns for everybody, but I see many down's... you have biggest number of gun related deaths in the WORLD, without having war on your territory, this is OK you think ? In Poland only totally hard-core cryminals have guns, but even they don't use them, beacause if they are robbing a bank for example - nobody have a gun, and police get them later in 90% cases, cause the money is of course marked, or i.e. drug dilers don't even THINK of having a gun
so it's much better this way, when allmost nobod have a gun... another thing it that Second Amendment is 200 years old or so, and then it gave american citizens security, but nowadays it's only trouble probaby the only reason it remains in force is multi-billion profits for industry... And thanks for your support, I - besides few things such as "fredom act" which is soviet-like, or "NSA" which listens to your phonecalls - like USA and your people, I'm glad that Poland is a close ally of US
@kkkkrackers i also live in EU and know its not a country.. u can still get a gun in poland..
"i can't think of a single thing - besides owning a gun - that you can do in america "
this was what i commented.
"NOTE: Firearms Statistics Include Gang Warfare, Self Defense Shootings and Criminals Killed by Police"
it does not say how many of them that are from self defense and therfore it does not prove that owning guns are bad. in both poland and usa u can buy guns illegal.
Your points may be accurate, but it is no so much the statistics that really matter, but about our freedom to defend ourselves regardless of government regulation. There are many laws that require screening (depending on state) before you can own a weapon. However, most criminals who use weapons can get them through illegal methods. Thus, law-abiding citizens are disarmed.
@kkkkrackers I agree with the poin that I THINK you were making that of Poland does not already have a culture of widespread gun ownership, then better never to start one. But that would not work in the US where gun ownership will never go away. One thing though: USA is NOT the only western country with very lax gun laws. I work in the Dominican Republic (Carribean) here any civilian can carry a handgun and they do. Chile + other have lax gun laws too.
I saw a motorist in istanbul stopped by two police officers and beaten with clubs over his head for no apparent reason. Any mention of the founding father attaturk with negativity can result in jail for anyone. I started to take a picutre of a governent building unknowingly and a military soldier came out with his machine gun and demanded me to stop. The people of turkey are the nicest I ever met.
The irony is the military, police, and government are what is still barbaric and need correcting
8 years ago I spent 17 days in turkey. I am american and when i flew from berlin to istanbul I could not help but think of mid express when i got off the plane. I want to say the turkish people are the nicest most hospitable group of people I ever met. When U go into shops they give u tea and chestnut. If you are a guest in there house they give you there bed and they sleep on the couch. The irony is that It appears the government, military and police are what is barbaric and wrong with turk
I just finished watching the movie, it was very well done, very compelling. After seeing this though, I gotta agree, very one dimensional. Was the 30 year sentence correct? That's way to extreme for the crime, the guy seems alright despite his experience, better than the actor who played him! Nice post! I won't think bad things about Turks now.
WOW! Bravo for telling the truth. I remember my mom was fighting the movie from being aired with the channel station back in the late 70's or early 80's..I was little. I remember her saying that they are lying about the Turks and the prisons and I honestly thought she was just saying that to defend Turkish people...now I see she had every right to fight the airing but it went no where. Thanks to the internet now, the truth comes out! Thank GOD!
Midnight Express made me feel about Turkey like Jaws made me feel about sharks, I got over my Shark fear and became a commercial diver, Now I really want to smoke weed on a Turkish beach. Is it safe now?
It's about personal choice and liberty, Being able to feel relaxed in my surroundings without any concern of interference or harrasment, The governments of this world knowingly permit and profit from cancer causing products, and yet enforce unreasonable laws on other matters which should be a matter of personal choice, Crash helmets and seatbelts is another issue which winds me up, Laws should be there to protect us from the actions of others only.
Have you ever smoked weed? Seriously, I have never in 30yrs had a trip on straight weed, It makes me very relaxed, makes me smile, and then I fall asleep..Yes it clouds my mind and judgement, it blocks out all the really nasty things in this world, so I can day dream peacefully with friends on a sunny day listening to some nice music, Is this bad? am I really being bad? Weed does not make me do bad things. Have you ever heard of cannabis crazed rioters? No,...... try it...
It makes you relax. And it makes other relax aswell. Looking at it on a social scale now.
Do you know about the Opium wars in China? And do you know why opium was banned? Well, opium, like any other drug, is highly addictive. On a social scale, it destroys communities and families.
People will frequently use drugs to just neglect the bad things in their lives, while the addiction might be the worst of them.
That's excactly what I try not to think about, it makes me angry, The human world can be so ugly, But the worst human addiction is Oil, and other commodities, Millions suffer and die in this pursuit and consumption. Iraq, Afganistan it's all so fucked up, No one can speak the truth because It is so evil, All we have is an upsurge of extreme conspiricy theories because people want answers, this is why I like to lie back, drift away with the fairies sometimes, and pretend the world is good.
Oil and commodity, consumption, these are just today's needs.
No man has abandoned his family for using oil for his car, or buying stuff for his house. But well, drugs, have a weird way of influencing people. They tend to make you a more loner type of person, that only needs his/her drug to be happy.
You are just escaping reality. And once you do, you'd want to do it again and again. And if it's legal for you, it's legal for the father of 3 children. Do you think it's ok?
Azmhyr, Listen, If I stop smoking weed, I am going to track down George Bush and strangle him to death, very slowly, whilst telling him what i think off him....
It's a stretch comparing cannabis to opium as the former does not result in physical addiction, although, I agree that mental addiction can be a very real beast.
Sadly, the inception of drug laws and regulation in the States (Look up The Harrison Drug Act) was legislation mired in racism and sexism and had very little to do with protecting anyone but "Gentile White Society."
I think that the threat that drugs bring to society are exaggerated by their illegality. Is there not more of a threat from drug cartels than there is from some poor addict getting a prescription from a chemist?
I'm going to search out an excellent series of documentaries pertaining to drugs in the 20th century, from the North American viewpoint, to send to you. It will illustrate my point about the drug laws inception being racist and sexist.
movie is racist piece of shit, and still it is being aired in day time, shown to western children, they fill their children's head with Turk image in this movie. how disgusting...
he should have asked him if he slipped that swedish fellow one in the shower and wether he really knocked the head off it when his missus came to visit him and got her boobs out for him. these are questions that need to be answered
I spent some time in 74 at the Pudding Shop. Some guy followed me and my mates to a coffee shop and offered us an afghan coat stuffed with hash at a really good price. Although tempting at the time, Im glad we turned him down. We could have ended up in one of those Turkish prison hell holes for 30 years!! (:-(
Oliver Stone himself said how terrible he feels for how Turkey was portrayed in this movie. He gave a drugged out speech when he won the oscar and said " Don't Just Look at Turkey but look at the United States drug policy." He said he regretted how bad he made Turkey out to be. He should make a movie about Turkey that is good.
I wonder how much Turkey paid Billy to say what he says now. As far as tolerance in Turkey, just last year there were at least 247 honor killings, and jailing of at least 1,646 for ant Turk crimes (speaking ill of Turkey) according to AI. Turkey is and will always be a Mongol, thus Asiatic in it's cruel behaviour.
There is darkness there and it is very much an intolerant Muslim country.
Turkey is a beautiful country but you have to remember even though Turkey is half europe half asian, their culture isnt the same as most europeans because they are mostly muslim. which makes them alot stricter and just remember Turkey is next door to Iran and Iraq and you wouldnt wana get caught smuggling hash from their would you ?!?! Midnight express did make all Turks look bad but then again you cant judge people by a holywood film, Americans do and their the stupidest people on this earth!!!
Just curious, Arsene. Why do you have the impression that Americans judge people by a Hollywood film? That couldn't be further from the truth. I assume you are using your mainstream media to judge Americans. If not, where do you get this prejudice?
I would love to visit the great country of Turkey. I think you are right about its beauty. I think the Turkish people are beautiful too.
fake...
lihaijames 2 months ago
@sacredjimi man youre really smart.. what do you do for a living? im guessing youre a doctor or rocket scientist or some shit?
FatTacoBellBurritos 2 months ago
Oliver Stone has never made historically accurate movies. If he wanted to make a documentary he'd make one. But he was an artist and wanted to make something he thought was great and he did.
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LRH67 4 months ago
fucking hollywood even changed the ending! oliver stone lost my credits now
hugoefoda 4 months ago 5
Alinur this is a great video, thank you for the upload
AceHalford 5 months ago 7
good luck bliy
MsMidnightExpress 5 months ago
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MsMidnightExpress 5 months ago
good to listen to this interview after watching the movie. Makes you realize what big change was made on the book and the outcome sucks. Is it that difficult to have the language checked at least after the movie was shot? I'm a native Turk and I had hard time understanding the judge, prosecuter, most of the prisoners... However, the "greek" accent didn't escape my notice and it made total sense when i read how Hayes was interrogated by greeks to collect intelligence concerning Turkish system ;)
eskazaeskaza 5 months ago
(((_{-_-}_))) maybe this movie is ready to be remade, i just bought this 20th anniversary edition dvd, for 2bucks, i watched it when it first came out and just now, i'm so glad i'm straight, lol,
lastfanstanding999 5 months ago
Fair enough, lets not blame the people in turkey, BUT yeah as he said in part 1- this doesnt justify the turkish prisons beause the system sucks BIG TIME and i still hate it and always will until they change it.
Also the guy that were interviewing Hayes; Not being bad or anything but you really need to improve your english language, sorry just had to mention it.
GKA87 5 months ago
lol what? did he say you could buy a gun?
Tvrkan 7 months ago
@Tvrkan he meant at the time you could , but I doubt that would happen anymore.
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joaomigproenca 7 months ago
i still think he does some drugs....
rwzal 7 months ago
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rwzal 7 months ago
i still think he does some drugs....the nerves,,body language....etc
rwzal 7 months ago
he looks like a really nice guy
too bad that he don't telling how exactly he
got free
nyny99ful 8 months ago
Did you hear what he said?That if he had really killed a person as in a guard while escaping that he wouldn't have been free anywhere even in the U.S., just suppose he had killed a guard,then made his way to Greece then Greece sent him to the U.S.,what then in 1975 ?Would the U.S. really have sent him back to Turkey to face an almost certain tortuous death? Back in 1975 I doubt the U.S. would've sent him back, today in 2011 I believe the U.S most certainly would send him.
undergroundbasement 8 months ago
@undergroundbasement "certain turturous death?" That sounds like USA to me not Turkey. As of 2004 Turkey does not have any capital punishment. And since Oct 1984, no prisoner was executed in Turkey. Before that there were executions but they were really rare and most of them happened because of military interventions. Otherwise I doubt he would be executed if he killed a guard. It is more certain to be happened in USA. Don't you think?
kahraman 6 months ago 2
@kahraman You a right, the U.S. TODAY , does believe in torture, therefore I do believe they would send him back today if his escape happened today. The Justice Dept intended on sending Dog The Bounty Hunter to Mexico for his "attempted" capture of American Andrew Luster who fled there, charging him with kidnapping.Mexico wanted Dog to stand trial for kidnapping, and only the intervention of a few U.S. senators and media attention prevented it.U.S. is worse today than 30 yrs ago
undergroundbasement 6 months ago
"...yeah, a good decision."
koenan1 9 months ago
I know what happened but im not gonna tell anyone
Ataturkistan 9 months ago
Good Interview by Borat
Alex03000351 10 months ago 2
Boaring...
CubeLuda 1 year ago
@CubeLuda Do you mean Boring? If so how so? The movie, the story or the interview?
Paulsdeb 1 year ago
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Nah I was replying to some idiots comment and hs know-it-all. The movie was pretty fucked up. I personally felt offended, but this guy is a nice guy. It's a shame he never had a say in the making of it.
CubeLuda 1 year ago
alinur beyinsel ozurlumusun adamin dedigini anlamiosan turkceyi ingilizceye ceviren biriyle konus.. o kadar sacma konusuosnki adamla utandim ya adam satranc diyo sen tavla diyosun adam yunan border dio sen canakkale diosn adam obur adam serbest kalmis dio sen cezaevnin icindemi vurdu die soruosn yuh ya
sinoax 1 year ago
ohh my god turks(barbar) coming!!!
QEKI12 1 year ago
@QEKI12 Eh şöyle yavşak yazacaksanda yabancı bir dilde yaz yazacaklarını güzel türkçemizi ağzına alıp bozma
Fsmturks 1 year ago
Qeki son kez söylüyorum hodrimeydan aq evladı. o kadar delikanlıysan hadi çık dağa . yemez. o büzük yemez. olacak adam da göt o zaman konuşacak. ancak girersin buraya gerçek adını saklayacaksın ibnelik yapacaksın. yiyomu dübürün silahlı mücadeleye aq ermeni dölü. sen bi kere adam değilsin, müslüman değilsin, erkek hiç değilsin. bak sana diyorum bu dünyanın bir de öteki tarafı var, oraya göçünce görürüm ben sizi. Allah'a (c.c.) da anlatırsın ermeni soykırımı kürt soykırımı diye.
RMajere 1 year ago
1. Dünya savaşında Avrupa ülkeleri ve Rusyanın vaatlerine kanarak Osmanlıyı arkasından vuran bazı ermeni teröristler ve şimdiki pkk ikiside aynı hep Türkleri arkasından vuran senin gibi şerefsizleri yok etmek boynumuzun borcu şimdi ben sana sorarım TÜRK' E KEFEN BİÇMEK KİMİN HADDİNE
Fsmturks 1 year ago
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o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun
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Fsmturks 1 year ago
Esrar ve uyuşturucu kullanan insanların yazdığı ve oynadığı bir film hakkında bence hiç konuşmaya bile değmez. Olayın gerçek kahramanı bu kişi zamanında uyuşturucu kullanan ve satan bir şahıs. Filmin senaristi olan Oliver Stone uyuşturucu bağımlısı. Filmin başrol oyuncusu olan Brad Devis ise aşırı dozda uyuşturucu alması nedeniyle ölmüştür
Fsmturks 1 year ago
@Fsmturks ne kadar uyusturucu alsa da senden cok daha namuslu ve sereflidir. sen iskenceyi savunuyor ama diger taraftan gizliyorsun. .tipki 2 yuzlu muslumanlar gibi her turlu yalan soyle ,hirsizlik yap ,iftira ,at ama camiye gidip namaz kil ..durust ve iyi bir insan mi oldun simdi?
QEKI12 1 year ago
@QEKI12 kimin namuslu ve şerefli olduğuna senmi karar vereceksin ben işkenceyi savunmuyorum yalana gelince bu filmde zaten bolca yalan iftira ve hakaret var türkçe bildiğine göre sana Türk demiyorum ama sanırım Türkiyede yaşıyorsun domuz ve piç olmayı sen kabul edebilirsin ama ben bir Türk vatandaşı olarak asla kabul edemem namaza gelince namaz kılmam ama iyi ve dürüst bir kişi olduğuma inanıyorum en azından senden çok daha fazla
Fsmturks 1 year ago
@Fsmturks domuz ve pic olmayi kabul edebilirim ama turk olmayi asla!!!domuzlar iskence yapmaz.ulan lauk uyusturucu kullanan herkes senin gibi namusuz ve serefsiz mi?
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@QEKI12 o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun
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@QEKI12 o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun
Fsmturks 1 year ago
@QEKI12 o zaman domuz ve piçlerin yaşadığı bir ülkeye gidecek ve bu güzel ülke senin gibi bir vatan haininden kurtulacak niye bu ülkede yaşıyorsun o zaman şerefsiz bu ülkenin toprağını ve suyunu kirletiyorsun?
Fsmturks 1 year ago
@Fsmturks zaten siz barbarladan kacip senin "gavur" dedigin insanlara sigindim baktim ki bu "gavurlar" siz turklerden(domuz lardan) cok daha namuslu ve serefli insalarmis.senin boklu tc ¬nden baska ulke mi yok!Ama daha sizinle bitmemis bir hesabimiz.Katlettiginiz 100 binlerce savunmasiz Kurdun ,1.5 milyon Ermeninin hesabini verecek bu ayip ile omur boyu yasayacaksiniz
QEKI12 1 year ago
@QEKI12 biz barbar değiliz barbar olan sizlersiniz siz ermeni kırması olanlar fikir değil kinle yoğrulmuş intikam duygusu üretirsiniz.Müslümanım diye geçinip gavurların memleketini memleket sayıp bir tek tc dediğin yalnız ve güzel ülkem TÜRKİYEMİ memleket bellemezsiniz ama daha dur ne hocalı yı unuttuk ne de 1910'da ermenilerin bizlere yaptıklarını ne de pkk(terör örgütü)nın bizlere yaptıklarını gün gelecek devran dönecek elbet bir gün hak yerini bulacak TÜRKLER Yine CİHAN Hakimiyeti kuracak...
gercekayvaz 1 year ago
@gercekayvaz siktir lan irkci fasist kopek.soykirimci ,katliamci ulkeni bana ovme .iskencesiyle, teroruyle,acligi ve yoksulluguyla her gun 20 milyon Kurd ,turk pencesi altinda inim inim inliyor.
QEKI12 1 year ago
@QEKI12 ben ırkçı faşistsem eğer sen benden daha fazla ırkçı ve faşitsin bilmem farkında mısın?Türk milleti dünyada en çok soykırıma uğrayan millettir bunun nedeni ise şöyle izah edilebilir alemin derdi biz olmuşuz demek ki zamanında çok koymuşuz.Türkiye'de doğu bölgeleri haricinde elektirik ve su parası ödemeyen yer yok en çok yeşil kart doğu bölgelerinde ayrıca Türkiye'de 20 milyon kürt yok 11-15 milon arası kürt var(zazalar dahil) inanmazsan viki ye bak...
gercekayvaz 1 year ago
@QEKI12 olm sen bi kere kürt bile değilsin senin ne olduğun belli değil, . daha 1 hafta önceye kadar benimle başka video da ermeni olarak konuşmuyormuydun? senin içine o kadar işlemişki hayvanlık ancak karşındakini suçlarsın piç. ermeniler doğuda katliam yaptı sürüldüler iyi de oldu keşke yolda hepsi ölseydi. ermeni kürtler pkk yı kurdu onlara da iyi oldu ölenleri, rumlar zamanında yaptı onlara da koyduk delikanlı olsaydınız ermeni-rum olarak da yenseydiniz normal yollardan
RMajere 1 year ago
@QEKI12 domuz ve piçsin o zaman deden de öyleydi demek ki sizde genetik haline gelmiş bu hadise ama şunu unutma namus ve şeref den bahsetmişsin sen onlar ne demek haberin var mı?bir piç olarak bu konuda ne hissediyosun?şerefin var mı?ya da bir domuz olarak namustan bahsedebiliyormusun?Şunu bil bir TÜRK'ün fikri neyse zikri de o dur.Sizin gibi kendine hayrı dokunmayan ha bir de kalkıp birilerine koltuk çıkim onlar da beni destekler diye konuşmaz bir TÜRK fikri ne ise zikri de o dur sen anlamazsın
gercekayvaz 1 year ago
@gercekayvaz domuzlar siz turkler gibi soykirim yapmaz, iskence sucu islemez,koy yakmaz sizil savunmasiz bebekleri kursuna dizmez.iste bu yuzden turk olmak yerine domuz olmayi tercih ediyorum.son 20 yilda 50 bin Kurdu katlettiniz ,4 bin kurd koyunu yaktiniz 5 milyon kurdu kurdistandan surdunuz. bunu ancak senin gibi namusuz ve serefsiz canlilar yapabilir
QEKI12 1 year ago
@QEKI12 ben müslümanım ne domuz olurum ne domuz yerim sen eğer müslümansan domuza benzetmenin bir müslümanı ne kadar günah olduğunu bilmelisin ama sen günahtan ne anlarsın vatana millete ihanet eden adamdan günahı anlamasını bekleyebilir misin?HAYIR...Son 30 yılda neler oldu sana söyleyim mi?Uygur Türkleri katledildi.Rusya etnik temizlik yaptı.ermeniler Hocalı katliamını yaptı pkk lılar ise defalarca yenildi ve Türk milleti ile uğraşmayı bırakın aksi halde Türk'e kefen biçenin ölümü korkunç olur
gercekayvaz 1 year ago
@QEKI12 senin ben ananı sikim orospunun evladı bütün videolarda bişeyler kanıtlamaya çalışıyosun. amına kodumun bölücüsü ermeni olduğundan yapıyosun senin ne olduğun belli değil piç. siktir git artık. aq evladı internette delikanlılığı yapıyosun ama ne güzel de Türkçe konuşuyosun senin anneni sikeyim diyorum başka da bişey demiyorum. Türk :Kürt ayrımını ancak senin gibi ermeni köpekler yapar başkası da yapmaz pkk denilen sikik grup da ermeni işi, bebekleri öldüren sizsiniz iyi bilirsiniz o işi
RMajere 1 year ago
turks gave money to this gay to speak like that..u fucking amerocan supported turkis barbarism againts armenian genoside ,kurdish massagres.turkish polise get traned by cia, nato ,pentegon...
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This faggot, would have burridos shoved up his ass on a daily basis, if he were jailed in mexico, fuck em, he is not innocent. This idiot taped 2 ks of hash to his body and tried to smuggle it to the US ...he was a moron
AntiKyrgyz 1 year ago
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this idiot taped 2 ks of hash to his body and tried to smuggle it to the US ...he was a moron
AntiKyrgyz 1 year ago
and they want to join EU?
neriku2 1 year ago
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When Oliver Stone made this film, due to Cold War which afforded some democracy at home may have made Turkey seem harsh, but today exactly the opposite is true. Watch gang stalking, gang stalking TV, gang stalking survivor, cell phone stalking, Monarch II (pt twelve), freedom's bloody corpse, back scatter x-ray vans videos on YouTube to see what I mean. U.S. has 5% of the world's population but holds 25% of the world's prisoners.
1975Aspen 1 year ago
So if he goes back he's not getting arrested? even though he escaped?
Cinlouxx 1 year ago
@Cinlouxx No,he has been back to Turkey. But I'm sure the turkish government paid him a nice sum to come and say nice things about Turkey. And let's not forget he made a fair amount of money from the book as well. Fact is Turkey has plenty of political violence and imprisons many journalists.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@mooneepondskid Wow! didn't know that, but do you think it's safe for anyone to travel there though?
Cinlouxx 1 year ago
@Cinlouxx For tourists visiting Istanbul and the beach resorts in the western part of the country it's ok. The eastern part of the country is a very different story. Having said that there have been a few bombings in Istanbul in the last few years. And you must take into account people are very nationalistic,so be careful of criticising Turkey inside Turkey.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@mooneepondskid sadece Türkiye'de değil nerede olursan ol Türkiyemi eleştirirken dikkatli ol çünkü:kimse bizimle yaşamadan bizi eleştiremez NOT TURKEY YES TÜRKİYE
gercekayvaz 1 year ago
@gercekayvaz No point is writing turkish to me mate..I don't understand it and why would you expect me too?..lol.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@mooneepondskid Ok thank you!. I'm guessing women have to wear those hijab's right?..I think I heard they don't have to, but still have to cover up or something.
Cinlouxx 1 year ago
He mentioned he would be afraid to go back to Turkey.Well if I spent five years in their prison.I wouldn`t be worried about it because I would never go back there.He wouldn`t hate the Turks just by the way he talked but he wakes up with that everyday.
openedup09 1 year ago
I am very glad I watched this video after the movie, now I have a much better understanding what really happened...
djmopa 1 year ago 29
@djmopa "banged up abroad"...did you watch that?
GoHiper 1 year ago
@djmopa hey the movie was far from the truth for artist reason as with most films for the art and stuff
SuperMrCRAZYMAN 11 months ago
@SuperMrCRAZYMAN of course, but there is some truth to it as well. The guy did have to escape, if it was not for him escaping, he would of never got out.
djmopa 11 months ago
@djmopa He actually would of got out.
The guards were talking about another man who was going to spend life in jail.
amapolishplummer 9 months ago
Tarik Akan (turkish actor) and Yilmaz Guney (turkish actor, filmaker) were also tortured during imprisonment. They were imprisoned for political reasons.
DJCENK0 1 year ago
It's to bad the real story wasn't told!
scorpionkings 1 year ago
@scorpionkings you can read the book ^^
furkanpolat24 1 year ago
@furkanpolat24 Very true, but only one problem for me, I'm blind in my left eye so I get massive headaches when I read small print for too long
scorpionkings 1 year ago
Legalize drugs. Especially pot and it's derivatives!
MCShaugh 1 year ago
@kkkkrackers: I'm Gay
mikeymike677 1 year ago
@kkkkrackers: The US isn't at war with Iraq, we're at war with Al-Queda. The Iraqi Army isn't fighting against the US, they're our allies. Get your shit straight
mikeymike677 1 year ago
@mikeymike677 - wuuut ???? you should get YOUR shit strait, you attacked Iraq, and Iraqi army was defending their country, but they lost, you have occupied Iraq and created puppet government, than created a NEW Iraqi army, which of course isn't fighting with US, so lets stick to the facts here, and not propaganda.
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
You want my guns? From my cold dead hands...
kegedwill 1 year ago
Turkey is the most beautiful country in the world!
filmyoneten 1 year ago
stay a way from turky,danger country with too many arab killers
nirful 1 year ago
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lol arabs are not turks, and turks are not arabs !!
PereRaspoutine 1 year ago 22
i was in turkey 2 years ago and its so fantastic turkey is so modern and people are so good and they have fantastic turistic places
sezkin31 1 year ago 2
lol okey mister sezkin advertising ur country relax urself ur nowhere close to a modern place yet
G9PitBull 1 year ago
@G9PitBull have you been to turkey?
BurakBabayigit 1 year ago
@BurakBabayigit I have it's a shit hole
Sansash01202 1 year ago
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and ur no where near the english language.
jen8933 1 year ago
Fascinating, truly fascinating.
Stadiumhere 1 year ago
So although I had a marvelous 17 days in turkey and the people were extemely nice I see the Irony. The government is possibley still a little bit barbaric. How can they ban Utube. How can a society not have freedom of speech. You can be on vacation in the sun with smiling turkish people and then find yourself in prison tied up by your feet. Always be careful in any foreign country. You dont have the civil rights that you have in USA. My impression of turkey is yes MIdnight express can hapen
MrJim12341121 1 year ago
@MrJim12341121 Billy Hayes story has happened in 1970s and he says most of the guards were really nice people. Turkey has improved a lot since then. We have a lot more university graduates who creates a better system. Although, we still have a way to go. On the other hand, if I got banged up in USA I believe Midnight express can happen there. Have you watch "The road to Guantanamo". It is a story of innocent people who were detained in Guantanamo by USA. It is a barbaric side of USA government.
kahraman 6 months ago 4
I was in turkey 8 years ago for 17 days. He did not deserve the harsh punishment for smuggling but for being stupid. It is deceiving when you are in turkey because the people are nice but the government and military are fucked up. They indeed seem to be very strict and paranoid even to this day. If I called the founding father of modern turkey Ataturk a mother fucker asshole cocksucking piece of shit in turkey I can go to jail for that. Thats Barbaric. NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH. They bann utube
MrJim12341121 1 year ago
Pot is still technically illegal in the Netherlands. Law enforcement just ignores it: they will have a problem with someone smoking it out in public (ie: smoke it only inside a coffee shop/bar) I have been to Amsterdam many times and never had a problem. I also have walked at night in the city and never had a problem--Try to do that in most large cities esp USA and you will probably get mugged.
texbear21 1 year ago
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This guy does not want to hurt Turkish feelings and it is OK. But the truth is Turkey does have appalling Human Rights situation and even there are good people over there Ataturk system maintains them as sadistic, violent and christian hatred mobs.
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simoaras 1 year ago
he didn kill the guard but did hi kill rifki?
Uuuuurk 1 year ago
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Billy Hayes never killed anyone.
thegirl44 1 year ago
He is an awesome guy!
cbracamonte 1 year ago
I just was careful not to have the border guards see the nyquil bottle and wonder if there might be something more in it. I'm not worried about traveling abroad and have done so without incident. My point is that if you're gonna fool around with narcotics (including hash) in foreign countries, don't be shocked when you get to jail & you don't get your one phone call, you aren't allowed to release on bail, your lawyer (if you get one) doesn't speak english, you're not presumed innocent, etc.
WilliamRowlett 2 years ago
sen git diyarbakırdaki hapishaneyi gör...anlarsın türkiyedki rahatlığı.........
yezidi666 2 years ago
All he says is he's a good guy
tsotsoko 2 years ago
Seems like an amazing guy, very bright.
AcronymEjr 2 years ago
Turkey is a very good and beautiful country..Everyone should see..
denizbenli 2 years ago
its an Oliver Stone movie....what else did you expect rather than pure propaganda and sensationalism.......
leelaural 2 years ago 2
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Turkey needs some "nation building" from the good old U. S . of A :)
markn902 2 years ago
I watched Midnight Express 30 years ago. I watched others like it (Return to Paradise, Brokedown Palace). If anything, it taught me to be careful when traveling to foreign nations. Call me paranoid but when I got a cold in London, I made a point of throwing away the over the counter Vick's Nyquil stuff before I left England. It sounds silly but I don't press my luck on being arrested for trumped up drug charges in a foreign country. Your US Constitutional rights don't extend overseas.
WilliamRowlett 2 years ago
@WilliamRowlett what exactly are us constituional rights anyway, i get the feeling you are as xenophobic as you are ignorant of other countries. i can't think of a single thing - besides owning a gun - that you can do in america that you can't do in almost any western country. im fairly sure that in no state in America can you actually sit in a coffee shop and smoke cannabis the way you can here
JanineRobin 2 years ago
Janine, there's nothing wrong with being able to own a firearm. I'm not ashamed that I own several. I'm not xenophobic, either. I'm just very careful not to put myself in a position to be arrested for the slightest reason of having illegal narcotics in a foreign country. A dose of prevention worth the pound of cure. As for being able to openly smoke pot at a sidewalk cafe in Amsterdam or shoot heroin in a public park, that's not something I do anyway. Keep your pot, I'll keep my guns.
WilliamRowlett 2 years ago
"i can't think of a single thing - besides owning a gun - that you can do in america that you can't do in almost any western country"
in which western country cant one own a gun?
Uuuuurk 1 year ago
USA is the ONLY western counrty where you can buy a gun without any permission, or psyhological tests etc. thus 90% of people died from shooting in all western countrys are in the USA... here in Poland allmost nobody have a gun, and we have about hundred killed from shooting YEARLY - Poland is 40 million population - and in US ? more than 30 thousend killed from gun yearly (!!!)
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
@kkkkrackers yeah,but u can still buy a gun, its not illegal to own a gun in EU.
USA have much more criminals, perhapse thats why its more common whit gun related deaths?
30 000? whats ur source for that number?
Uuuuurk 1 year ago
@Uuuuurk - EU is not a country, in some EU countrys you probably can get a gun eassily, but I talking about Poland, and here to get a gun you have to pass tests carried by the police, have zero criminal record, and aso have to have a reason - i.e. you have a business and often carry lots of casch, or something like this - and still that does not give 100% chance od getting a gun, as I said in Poland allmost nobody have a gun, and I like it that way
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
@Uuuuurk - And my source is: tiny(dot)pl/hg99r but you can find it in many more current sources, it's exacly: 28,663, and in Poland we have more or less 50 gun related deaths yearly (i've just checked in polish police statistics) so in USA - 300 mil. citizens, 30000 gun deaths, in Poland 40 mil. citizens - 50 gun deaths ! It's like 800 000:1 in Poland, and 10 000:1 in USA, shocking huh ? And another egzample - Germany - 300 gun deats yearly, with 80 mil. citizens
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
It all comes down to the fact that I would prefer to hold on to my right to bear arms even if that means having to worry about some psycho shooting me up on my way to pick up my kid from school. I would rather depend on myself than on my government to defend me. I would rather depend on myself to defend my own life and property and to have that freedom than to surrender it to any government authority. All statistics, therefore, become mute.
Apollo5600 1 year ago
@Apollo5600 - hey man, I respect your opinion, I understand it, but... I don't agree with it, well, maybe if I would live in USA, and have to deal with high crime rate, than I would want a gun for my self, but in Poland I just don't have reasons... as I said, we have less murders in a year in whole country, than you have in NY i a month... of course if I would have a gun, I would feel a little bit safer, but - the cost of possibility to have a gun for almost everyone is to high for a society
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
@Apollo5600 - so... your right that statistics doesn't matter if you just want to feel safe, and have a gun to defend your family, but I gave those statistics data, to illustrate how different is the situation in Poland, than in the USA... so I generally think that I wouldn't feel safer in Poland if everybody could have a gun, cause now - almost nobody have it, in USA on the other hand, where almost everybody have a gun now, I would rather to have one also... again - sorry for my bad english ;]
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
And when Russia invades your sorry gun-free asses, you'll wish you had our Second Amendment. That said, I'm a good supporter of Poland and love your people.
Apollo5600 1 year ago
the Polish military is to protect us, and NATO - which I hope THIS TIME will not f*ck us like in 1945, when the west sold Poland to soviet murderers ! And beliwe me, you a a citizen can't protect your country with a gun, i.e. EVERY citizen of Iraq had a gun - did it protect them from powerfull US army ? Of course not, but when everybody have a gun, you have situations like frustrated/crazy studend shooting to other students, and teachers, or driver shooting to policeman
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
so I hardly see any up's in having free acces to guns for everybody, but I see many down's... you have biggest number of gun related deaths in the WORLD, without having war on your territory, this is OK you think ? In Poland only totally hard-core cryminals have guns, but even they don't use them, beacause if they are robbing a bank for example - nobody have a gun, and police get them later in 90% cases, cause the money is of course marked, or i.e. drug dilers don't even THINK of having a gun
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
so it's much better this way, when allmost nobod have a gun... another thing it that Second Amendment is 200 years old or so, and then it gave american citizens security, but nowadays it's only trouble probaby the only reason it remains in force is multi-billion profits for industry... And thanks for your support, I - besides few things such as "fredom act" which is soviet-like, or "NSA" which listens to your phonecalls - like USA and your people, I'm glad that Poland is a close ally of US
kkkkrackers 1 year ago
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@kkkkrackers i also live in EU and know its not a country.. u can still get a gun in poland..
"i can't think of a single thing - besides owning a gun - that you can do in america "
this was what i commented.
"NOTE: Firearms Statistics Include Gang Warfare, Self Defense Shootings and Criminals Killed by Police"
it does not say how many of them that are from self defense and therfore it does not prove that owning guns are bad. in both poland and usa u can buy guns illegal.
Uuuuurk 1 year ago
Your points may be accurate, but it is no so much the statistics that really matter, but about our freedom to defend ourselves regardless of government regulation. There are many laws that require screening (depending on state) before you can own a weapon. However, most criminals who use weapons can get them through illegal methods. Thus, law-abiding citizens are disarmed.
Apollo5600 1 year ago
@kkkkrackers I agree with the poin that I THINK you were making that of Poland does not already have a culture of widespread gun ownership, then better never to start one. But that would not work in the US where gun ownership will never go away. One thing though: USA is NOT the only western country with very lax gun laws. I work in the Dominican Republic (Carribean) here any civilian can carry a handgun and they do. Chile + other have lax gun laws too.
forestskog 1 year ago
I saw a motorist in istanbul stopped by two police officers and beaten with clubs over his head for no apparent reason. Any mention of the founding father attaturk with negativity can result in jail for anyone. I started to take a picutre of a governent building unknowingly and a military soldier came out with his machine gun and demanded me to stop. The people of turkey are the nicest I ever met.
The irony is the military, police, and government are what is still barbaric and need correcting
MrJim12341121 2 years ago
8 years ago I spent 17 days in turkey. I am american and when i flew from berlin to istanbul I could not help but think of mid express when i got off the plane. I want to say the turkish people are the nicest most hospitable group of people I ever met. When U go into shops they give u tea and chestnut. If you are a guest in there house they give you there bed and they sleep on the couch. The irony is that It appears the government, military and police are what is barbaric and wrong with turk
MrJim12341121 2 years ago 2
Turkish prisons are just how prisons in germany or US are.
Even better because at least you don'T get any fascist guards kicking you around.
As you see in the interview, what billy hayes experienced is way too different than movie.
Movie was directed in a falsified way to be used as a political weapon toward Turkish.
I think one should visit Turkey and meet some Turkish before doing a certain statement on Turks.
No nation is totally good or bad. Don't blindly believe in movie
leon0448 2 years ago 2
I know Hayes got laid after this interview, look at that chick... see was impressed
sticky617 2 years ago 2
haha and damn hot too!
Terminator860 2 years ago
No. The movie features Turkish prisons, aswell as the movie protagonist screaming stuff against the turkish people in the court.
Yes, turkish prisons are brutal.
Watch Tatar Ramazan.
azmhyr 2 years ago
I just finished watching the movie, it was very well done, very compelling. After seeing this though, I gotta agree, very one dimensional. Was the 30 year sentence correct? That's way to extreme for the crime, the guy seems alright despite his experience, better than the actor who played him! Nice post! I won't think bad things about Turks now.
sean2me 2 years ago
WOW! Bravo for telling the truth. I remember my mom was fighting the movie from being aired with the channel station back in the late 70's or early 80's..I was little. I remember her saying that they are lying about the Turks and the prisons and I honestly thought she was just saying that to defend Turkish people...now I see she had every right to fight the airing but it went no where. Thanks to the internet now, the truth comes out! Thank GOD!
Tangirl73 2 years ago
Midnight Express made me feel about Turkey like Jaws made me feel about sharks, I got over my Shark fear and became a commercial diver, Now I really want to smoke weed on a Turkish beach. Is it safe now?
oldskoolchopperboy 2 years ago 2
Why would you want to smoke drugs in the open?
If you get caught only smoking it, they can't put you in prison, but smuggling is a serious crime.
azmhyr 2 years ago
It's about personal choice and liberty, Being able to feel relaxed in my surroundings without any concern of interference or harrasment, The governments of this world knowingly permit and profit from cancer causing products, and yet enforce unreasonable laws on other matters which should be a matter of personal choice, Crash helmets and seatbelts is another issue which winds me up, Laws should be there to protect us from the actions of others only.
oldskoolchopperboy 2 years ago
I don't think so.
Drugs are bad. They cloud your mind and judgement. Alcohol, yes, it's bad, but in contrast to psychodelic drugs, it's nothing.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Have you ever smoked weed? Seriously, I have never in 30yrs had a trip on straight weed, It makes me very relaxed, makes me smile, and then I fall asleep..Yes it clouds my mind and judgement, it blocks out all the really nasty things in this world, so I can day dream peacefully with friends on a sunny day listening to some nice music, Is this bad? am I really being bad? Weed does not make me do bad things. Have you ever heard of cannabis crazed rioters? No,...... try it...
oldskoolchopperboy 2 years ago
And I care.
It makes you relax. And it makes other relax aswell. Looking at it on a social scale now.
Do you know about the Opium wars in China? And do you know why opium was banned? Well, opium, like any other drug, is highly addictive. On a social scale, it destroys communities and families.
People will frequently use drugs to just neglect the bad things in their lives, while the addiction might be the worst of them.
That's why drugs should be made illegal.
azmhyr 2 years ago
That's excactly what I try not to think about, it makes me angry, The human world can be so ugly, But the worst human addiction is Oil, and other commodities, Millions suffer and die in this pursuit and consumption. Iraq, Afganistan it's all so fucked up, No one can speak the truth because It is so evil, All we have is an upsurge of extreme conspiricy theories because people want answers, this is why I like to lie back, drift away with the fairies sometimes, and pretend the world is good.
oldskoolchopperboy 2 years ago
Oil and commodity, consumption, these are just today's needs.
No man has abandoned his family for using oil for his car, or buying stuff for his house. But well, drugs, have a weird way of influencing people. They tend to make you a more loner type of person, that only needs his/her drug to be happy.
You are just escaping reality. And once you do, you'd want to do it again and again. And if it's legal for you, it's legal for the father of 3 children. Do you think it's ok?
azmhyr 2 years ago
Azmhyr, Listen, If I stop smoking weed, I am going to track down George Bush and strangle him to death, very slowly, whilst telling him what i think off him....
So, do you think I should stop smoking weed ?
oldskoolchopperboy 2 years ago
yes, you should. I don't think you're going to kill anyone.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Yes, you should.
At least George W. Bush would end up the way he deserves ;-)
4cqua08 2 years ago
@azmhyr
It's a stretch comparing cannabis to opium as the former does not result in physical addiction, although, I agree that mental addiction can be a very real beast.
Sadly, the inception of drug laws and regulation in the States (Look up The Harrison Drug Act) was legislation mired in racism and sexism and had very little to do with protecting anyone but "Gentile White Society."
thegirl44 1 year ago
Well, I think that the fact that it does not have a "substance based" addiction does not make cannabis less dangerous.
In fact, I have no idea how it relates to racism or sexism. Racism perhaps, propoganda suggests a link between cocaine and black people.
Still, drugs were banned here in Turkey with no relation to racist or sexist ideals.
Indeed, for drugs are a serious threat to society.
azmhyr 1 year ago
@azmhyr
I think that the threat that drugs bring to society are exaggerated by their illegality. Is there not more of a threat from drug cartels than there is from some poor addict getting a prescription from a chemist?
I'm going to search out an excellent series of documentaries pertaining to drugs in the 20th century, from the North American viewpoint, to send to you. It will illustrate my point about the drug laws inception being racist and sexist.
thegirl44 1 year ago
noone ever died of marijuana smoking
legalize it everywhere
stop wars
G9PitBull 1 year ago
@G9PitBull
Well accomplish that then well take on the Breed Specific Legislation that is killing our faithful pets.
You and me, kid, all for one and one for....
Aw, hellfire, who's gonna listen to us anyway :).
thegirl44 1 year ago
movie is racist piece of shit, and still it is being aired in day time, shown to western children, they fill their children's head with Turk image in this movie. how disgusting...
utkua 2 years ago
what an honest nice guy he really is
slugandlettuce 2 years ago 10
Thank you for the truth. A few decades later, maybe the supposed armenian genocide will be revealed as false.
Xear0 2 years ago 4
Oh billy!!
leostrater 2 years ago
he should have asked him if he slipped that swedish fellow one in the shower and wether he really knocked the head off it when his missus came to visit him and got her boobs out for him. these are questions that need to be answered
MegaNando99 2 years ago 2
I spent some time in 74 at the Pudding Shop. Some guy followed me and my mates to a coffee shop and offered us an afghan coat stuffed with hash at a really good price. Although tempting at the time, Im glad we turned him down. We could have ended up in one of those Turkish prison hell holes for 30 years!! (:-(
centralcrewer 2 years ago
Turkey is beautiful.
JerrzzyFresh 2 years ago 6
Oliver Stone himself said how terrible he feels for how Turkey was portrayed in this movie. He gave a drugged out speech when he won the oscar and said " Don't Just Look at Turkey but look at the United States drug policy." He said he regretted how bad he made Turkey out to be. He should make a movie about Turkey that is good.
JerrzzyFresh 2 years ago 5
shut da fuck up u stupid muffin, actually i love ur mum's pussy with swiss chocolate
eternity4everusa 2 years ago
Me too! ^_^
MelanieLouM 2 years ago
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I wonder how much Turkey paid Billy to say what he says now. As far as tolerance in Turkey, just last year there were at least 247 honor killings, and jailing of at least 1,646 for ant Turk crimes (speaking ill of Turkey) according to AI. Turkey is and will always be a Mongol, thus Asiatic in it's cruel behaviour.
There is darkness there and it is very much an intolerant Muslim country.
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ArseneWenger12891 2 years ago 2
Since when did Americans even know there are other countries!
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dozk34 2 years ago
Turkey is a beautiful country but you have to remember even though Turkey is half europe half asian, their culture isnt the same as most europeans because they are mostly muslim. which makes them alot stricter and just remember Turkey is next door to Iran and Iraq and you wouldnt wana get caught smuggling hash from their would you ?!?! Midnight express did make all Turks look bad but then again you cant judge people by a holywood film, Americans do and their the stupidest people on this earth!!!
ArseneWenger12891 2 years ago
Just curious, Arsene. Why do you have the impression that Americans judge people by a Hollywood film? That couldn't be further from the truth. I assume you are using your mainstream media to judge Americans. If not, where do you get this prejudice?
I would love to visit the great country of Turkey. I think you are right about its beauty. I think the Turkish people are beautiful too.
Hootowl54 2 years ago